750 



CONSERVATION 



agely attacking it with thirty so in- 

 different that their votes were not re- 

 corded at all. Look at the details : 



State Ayes 



Maryland 3 



Virginia 7 



West Virginia 2 



Kentucky 5 



Tennessee 6 



North Carolina 7 



South Carolina 4 



Georgia 2 



Florida o 



Alabama 6 



Mississippi 2 



Louisiana 4 



Arkansas 2 



Texas 3 



Totals 53 



36 



30 



This is the record as it stands, and, 

 frankly speaking, as it will probably 

 stand, in the next Congress and in suc- 

 ceeding ones, unless the South can prod 



indifference into action, and change 

 misrepresentation into representation. 



Contrasted with the vote of New 

 England on the same measure, where, 

 out of a total of twenty-seven votes, 

 twenty-six voted aye and only one is 

 recorded as not voting, there need be 

 no hesitancy on the part of intelligent 

 and patriotic southerners in character- 

 izing the vote of our southern repre- 

 sentatives as a reflection on the intelli- 

 gence of the South and a disregard of 

 the South's best interests. 



It is not a record to be proud of (and 

 it is said by a southern man), and it 

 should mean such an arousing of the 

 South as will give the Weeks-Lever or 

 a similar bill in the next session a ma- 

 jority that comprises every southern 

 man in Congress ! 



It should further mean that the South 

 is determined to have this forest area ; 

 that it will closely follow proposed for- 

 estry legislation in the next session : 



Bluffs on New River Forty Feet High at a Point About Eighty Feet Below Sea^level. New River Channel Rises Above 



Sea'level and Disappears at 280 Feet Below 



